Trending Stock Sentiment Analyzer

Scrapes Google Trends, Reddit, Twitter, and financial news to gauge retail sentiment on trending stocks in real-time. Shows if a stock is gaining hype (like SpaceX IPO or meme stocks) and displays sentiment score with social volume metrics.

Retail trading remains highly active post-meme-stock era, and the SEC's increased scrutiny of social media-driven pump-and-dump schemes has paradoxically made sentiment tracking more valuable, not less — traders want signal before regulators do. The closest incumbents are StockTwits and tools like Quiver Quantitative, both of which already aggregate social sentiment with varying depth, meaning differentiation has to come from speed, source breadth, or novel scoring — not the concept itself. The $2k–$10k/mo revenue band is plausible but tight, since the natural buyers are retail traders who are notoriously price-sensitive and churn aggressively when their picks go wrong. The biggest risk is API dependency: Twitter's API pricing gutted an entire category of sentiment tools in 2023, and Reddit has since followed with its own restrictions, so the core data pipeline can break without warning and without a cheap fix.